For homeowners whose properties have green lawns, shrubs, trees, and other greenery, every homeowner's exterior should be a beautiful landscape. When you look at your home's exterior, do you feel like your property's landscaping can measure up? A well-kept landscape can increase how much your home is worth, but also how much you enjoy living in your home; it just feels nicer to host a backyard get-together in a stunning, picturesque landscape rather than a yellowing lawn.

In the modern day, you don't need to spend hours and hours mulching your property yourself. When you want to quickly have your entire property treated without getting it all over the place, bark-blowing services may be a perfect choice. Bark blowers bring the mulch to your property and utilize professional equipment to cleanly and evenly distribute it across your property in a fraction of the time. For homeowners like you, here are nine signs that you could benefit from bark blowers.

1. Untreated Lawn

When you move onto a property, unless you have a first-hand account from the previous homeowner alongside receipts, you won't know what kind of care was put into taking care of the home. While the lawn may look gorgeous at the time of purchasing, you have no idea how nourished that topsoil is.

Without mulch and active maintenance, the shrubs and flowers around your house may begin to wither without the proper nutrients and pH balance. According to the Statesman Journal, bark mulch is actually acidic, with a pH between 3.5 and 4.5. Now that the property is your responsibility get a head start on landscaping by having bark blowers treat your exterior.

2. Withering Plants

Take a close look at the plants around your property. Notice any yellowing leaves and drooping branches? Your vegetation is screaming for help! Without mulch, plants can overheat in the summer and freeze during the winter. Weakened plants become vulnerable to insects, fungi, and other threats. With a protective layer of mulch evenly distributed by bark blowers, you'll be able to ensure that your landscaping remains healthy all year long.

Not only does mulch add this protective layer, but it also aids in hydration. Mulch absorbs the water the plant receives, either from you watering it or from the rain. Then, instead of allowing the water to drain away or evaporate, it retains the water for plants to absorb.

3. Soil Erosion

For every property or garden, soil erosion is a natural part of having a garden. Soil particles will slowly be carried away by the wind or washed away by the rain. However, you're left with a stripped, dusty kind of dirt that cannot support life.

With a layer of mulch atop that soil, not only does the mulch serve as a sponge to absorb water and block wind, but it also provides nutrients from the mulch itself. This is because the mulch can be comprised of things such as cedar wood, hemlock, and compost. With the organic matter that mulch is comprised of, you'll be able to turn around even the dustiest, most uninhabitable landscapes and transform them into something beautiful. It just takes hard work and consistency with maintenance, but when you work with professionals, neither of those things needs to be difficult on your end.

4. Invasive Weeds

If forests of weeds are sprouting up around your property, your landscape is sending out a call for help. Weeds tend to thrive in environments that traditional plants don't do well in. For example, if you aren't regulating the hydrating and nutrition of your plants, while a beautiful bed of flowers won't be able to survive, hardier weeds may take root. Instead of wasting hours with weeding your garden, have bark blowers come by and add mulch to the property. Mulch helps deter weed growth by adding a protective layer to the soil; mulch also adds nutrition to the soil, regulates hydration, and maintains a proper pH level, all aspects of promoting plant growth.

5. Larger Properties

For homeowners with larger properties with several hundred square feet of greenery, it might seem like an impossible task to mulch the entire property quickly and evenly. By yourself, that could be a task that takes weekends of hard labor. With the technology at their disposal, bark blowers are able to treat your landscape in a fraction of the time. Not only do bark-blowing services have access to different mulches, but they also have the technology to quite literally blow it out, gallons at a time. A great example for homeowners unfamiliar with bark blowing is to think of it like this: it's the difference between shoveling your entire property to snow blowing.

6. Specific Needs

If you're mulching your home for the first time, you might not know that there are many different materials that you could mulch your home with. Some, like fresh hemlock and dark hemlock, are both kid-friendly and pet-friendly when compared to other options. Some types of mulch aid certain types of plant growth. If you're just padding out a kids' play area, playground chips might be the perfect option. Whatever it is, when you work with professionals, you can rest assured that you'll have a full breadth of options and advisement from the experts. Not sure which option to go for? Make sure to ask!

7. Drab Landscape

For some homeowners, even if the shrubs out front are looking great, they might not be happy with the standard brown mulch that they see their neighbors with. Did you know that mulch can come in different colors? For example, if you've just painted your house a bright, modern white, maybe it's a stunning red mulch that'll contrast ever so nicely with your green plants and white siding. When you take control of your mulch, you open yourself up to a plethora of different cosmetic options that your mulch can take.

8. Price Gouging

The average homeowner doesn't know what sorts of mulches work best for their property. In addition, it's also likely that those same homeowners won't know a fair price for mulch by the pound. In the worst case, they'll end up overpaying for mulch that they have to distribute themselves but will have to do it all by hand. When you trust bark blowers like Red Bark Inc, you can rest assured that you'll only pay fair prices. In fact, we offer a 5% discount on products, thereby ensuring that you're receiving a great deal on services.

9. Treatment Time

Even well-cared-for landscape beds demand revitalization every so often. Don't let your mulch go past its prime! Staying on top of consistent renewal protects your greenery long-term. Not all mulch has the same lifespan or disposal methods, either! When you have bark blowers working on your property, establish a product lifespan with them and schedule your next service. That way, you'll never run into the issue of your mulch actively harming your landscape rather than helping it.

Attempting intensive bark-blowing solo often ends badly! Protect your comfort, time, money, belongings, and landscaping by calling seasoned experts. With a plethora of options, you'll be able to customize how you want to replenish your garden beds beautifully with fresh mulch. Reap a pristine, perfectly contoured landscape without lifting a finger. With over 30 years of experience, if you're interested in working with the area's premier bark blowers, look no further than Red Bark Inc. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us. Call us now to get an estimate for your next bark-blowing project.